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All complaints of “‘short counts” and spoiled sheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room of the Heratp establish- ment. Newsmen who have received spoiled papers from the Hgratp office, are requested to re- turn the same, with proof that they were obtained from here direct, and have their money refunded. Spoiled sheets must not be sold to readers of the Hap. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS The Daity Hsraup will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Hgraup at the same price it is furnished in the city. THE NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated Pebruary «4. In the Constituentt Cortes, on Monday, tue official resignation of the provisional government was an- nounced. A vote of thanks was passed to the mem- bers of it on their retirement, notwithstanding the Opposition of the republican members of the Cortes. Marshal Serrano bas been invested with full powers to form a new Cabinet. General De Roda is to suc- ceed Dulce as Governor General of Cuba. The movement for the union of Portugal and Spain under the old name of Iberia is condemned by the press of Vortugal. Cuba. Captain General Duice’s firmness ts believed to Dave alone prevented serious disturbances in Havana on the part of the volunteers. Great excite- Ment exists, however, on account of the Peruvian fron-clads at Key West. The msurgents have cap- tured the town ofjMayajigua, near Remedios. Skir- mishes are continually taking piace in the nelghyorhood of Tridided, Cienfuegos and Villa Olgra. ‘The insurgents about Cienfuegos are well ‘Mounted and sapplied with artillery. ‘The people in the Central Department have all abandoned tnetr estates and moved into the cities. A vigorous cam- paign against the revolutioniste is to be immediately ipaagurated. Congress. In the Senate yesterday the Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged from farther consideration of the petition of Messrs. Patterson and Murgiondo relative to the Alta Vela affair. The same commit- tee reported favorably the bill declaring that the neutrality laws shall not be heid to forbid the sale of ‘vousels of war to nations at peace with the United States. The Army Appropriation bili was reported with amendments. The constitutional amendment ‘was called up, but Mr, Davis moved to postpone it in order to take up the bill to repeal the Tenure of e9 act, The motion was lost by a vote of 14 to 26, the Only republicans voting yea being Mesars. Kellogg, Morton, Robertson, Thayer and Warner. ‘Vice President Wade voted nay. A committee of conference was tnen asked of the House on the constitutional amendment. The bill to amend the Judicial system by increasing the namber of Asso- ciate Justices of the Supreme Court and allotting @ach one @ distinct circuit was generally de- Dated and finally passed. The bili making ita penalty to hold office in violation of the fourteenth amendivent was discussed at length and then post- poned. The bill to amend the Civil Rights act was taken up and passed. In the evening session the bills to establish as a post route the proposed East river bridge, to prevent extermination of fur-vearing uimals in Alaska, and 10 allow the New York, New- foundiand and London Telegraph Company to land ‘their cable on the shores of the United States, were In the House a report was made in the case of 3. B. Casemaat, claiming to be a delegate from Wyo- ming Territory, disallowing his claim to a seat, The President's veto of the Copper Tarii bill was read, ‘and an hour of generai debate was allowed upon it, gm the course of which it was argued that the President had vetoed tue bill to please this «Baltimore friends, who had invited him to seccept the hospitalities of that city on his retirement, The bili was passed over the qyeto by a Vote Of 115 to 66, The two recusant wit- ‘nesses, Messrs, Bell and Reeve, of Orange county, IN. T., who had refused to testify before the Commit- on the New York Blection Frauds, were brought by the Sergeant-at-Arms, aod stated that they qwere now rend to answer, They were then taken in custody. The report of the Committee on Election Frauds in New York was then bing oedDohan namber of bills, am them one ps ‘ot soruratienion from certain courts in iow York city. Under a suspension of te rules NEW YUKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. and without dilatory motions this bill was passed by & vote of 6940 64, air, Brooka, having voted in the aMrmative, entered a motion to reconsider. A com- Judicial Appropriation bill was, however, taken up in Committee of the Whole on reassembling. A mo- tion to increase the pay of female clerks in departments to $1,200 @ year was the casion of genera! debate, in which Mr, Butler Stated that he thought their pay ought not to be tmcreased, partly because members would be even i g ‘Special Commissioner of Revenue was also to, ag that officer had, according to Mr. Moorhead, demonstrated that figures could be made to lie and he did not have the good of the country at heart, The House then adjourned. The Legislatare. In the Senate yesterday no quorum was present. In the Assembly a message was received from the’ Governor vetomg the bill providing for the raising of money to pay for improvements in Ellicott, Chau- tauqua county. The message was tabled. MisceHancons. General Grant told Mr. Dickey, the Pennnsylvanta Congressman, and others, yesterday, that Pennsyl- vania would certainly contribute one member to his Cabinet, and that no one would be more sur- prised than the gentleman himself when he re- ceived his appomtment. This last clause fs snp- posed to bar out Mesers. Cameron, Curtin and Forney. Who it w to be 18 now the question agitated among the Pennsylvania delega- tion. The General also stated that he would nomi- nate Schofield for Secretary of War, but believed he would decline, and in that case he would have a Civitian at the head of each department. as he was opposed to appointing army or naval officers to civil ofices. The gentiemen present left him with the be- lief that he will appotat a full republican Cabinet. ‘The English parson, Mr. Sharman, who was hissed while preaching at the National theatre in Washing- ton, on Sunday night, for denouncing President Johnson’s course in pardoning Dempsey, the sta- tionery contractor, who had been fined for cow- hiding a Patent Office clerk, yesterday sent word to Mr. Dempsey to come up with his cowhide and try it on him (Sharman), he guaranteeing there will be no prosecution for assault, Sharman, however, is a famous fighter, and Dempsey did not accept the invitation. The Fourth National Bank of Philadelphia closed its doors yesterday, in consequence, tt is alleged, of the defalcation of the cashier, McMullen, who is in the custody of the police, but refuses to give any ex- planation or information as to the affair. The capi- tal of the bank amounted at the last report to $225,000 and the depdffits to $500,000, Brown & Co.'s bank in Toronto, Canaaa, also sus- pended yesterday on account of heavy losses in New York. Elsewhere in our columns this morning we publish the report of the minority of the Congressional Com- mittee on the New York lection Frauds. President Johnson will give the last grand recep- tion of his term on Tuesday next. General Sherman ts at present in St. Louis, whence he will startin @ few days for Washington. Heavy snow storms on the Pacific Railroad have blocked up the trains. Preparations are already being made for the re- ception of l’resident Johnson in Baltimore. The City. The trial of Donato Magaido for the murder of John Ryiand was concluded yesterday, the jury, after a long charge from Judge Barnard, bringing in @ verdict of murder in the second degree. He ‘was then sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for life. In the United States Circuit Court a suit has been commenced against Charies A. Dana, ex- Assistant Secretary of War, on the complaint of G. B, Lamar, for false arrest and imprisonment. In the Supreme Conrt, Circuit, yesterday the libel sult of Charles Reade, the novelist, va, Charles H. Sweetzer, was called up, but adjourned to Friday next on motion of defendant's counsel. Dr. Chandler, of the Board of Health, yesterday analyzed the adulterated milk seized a day or two ago, and by the ald of the microscope discovered sights in the water used that the Board does not feel justified in aliowing the public to know at present. In accordance with judicial decision rendered against the Methodist Episcopal church in Hoboken the sheriff seized It on Monday. ‘The steamship Cuba, Captain Moodie, will sail to- day for Liverpool. The mala will close at the Post Office at half-past eleven o’clock A. M.. The Merchants’ line steamship Sherman, Vaptain Henry, will sail from pier No. 12 North river, at five P. M., to-day, for New Orleans direct. The stock Board yesterday was irregular for most of the list, but strong for the present leading spec ulative shares, Gold declined to 132%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge Hardaway, of Georgia; Captain Averill and Captain Owen, of the United States Army; John H. Cannon, of Louisville, and H. D. Colvin, of Chicago, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel G. C. Livingston, of Bridgeport; Major R. W. Young, of Cincinnattt; W. B. Lynn, of Spring- field, and Colonel J. B, Chamberlin, of Albany, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Captain J. Palmer, of the English Army, is at the St. Julien Hotel. John Rose and Jobn J. McLaren, of montreal, and John L. Gibbs, of Quebec, are at the Clarendon Hotel. of New York; Theodore F. Jewell, of the United States Navy, and George Peabody Russell, of Salem, Mass., are at the Fifth Avenue Rotel. Captain Moodie, of the steamship Cuba, and Dugald Mactavish, of Montreal, are at the Hoffman House. The Senate and the Tenare of Office Law=— General Grant’s Policy. A radical caucus of the Senate has decided upon the postponement of the repeal or modi- fication of the Tenure of Office law till the 4th of March. Such leading republicans of the Senate as Fessenden, Sherman and Morton pleaded earnestly for the repeal as a simple measure of justice to the President elect; but it appears that Wilson and Sumner, of Massa- chusetts, gained their point by parading before the startled Southern “carpet-baggers” the ghost of Andy Johnson. It was true that the restrictions of the existing law, which had kept Johnson on his good behavior, were not needed for Grant; but still, looking to the future, beyond Grant, some modifications of the law would be wiser than its absolute repeal. But inasmuch as if a bill amending the law or repealing the law were sent up to Johnson he would seize the occasion for one of his villa- nous lectures to the Senate, Wilson would postpone the subject to avoid this satisfaction to Johnson. And so, upon this childish pre- tence, the caucus voted to pass the subject over to the new Congress, when Johnson will be ont of the way. Distrust of Grant is the real explanation of this proceeding. Sumner has no faith in Grant, Wilson follows in the wake of Sumner, and Massachusetts rules the radical ring of the Senate. It is thus decreed that before Grant is released from the shackles with which Con- gress tied up Johnson he must show his hand, define his position in his Cabinet and in his inaugural, or in his initial message to the new Congress. Nobody knows what the Cabinet of Grant is to be; no- it ig not expected that it will be anything more than a few appropriate and suggestive general remarks on the political situation. But the first thing after the organization of the new Congress on the 4th of March will be the ap- pointment of a joint committee to wait upon the new President and inform him that the two houses are organized for business and ready to receive any communication he may have to make. What answer will the new President make to this customary and direct application from Congress for his views on public affairs? The Senate, in postponing the consideration of the bill in question, say, ‘Let us wait and see, If he is with us, all right; but if he be against us, we have him. Let the oracle speak before we bow down and worship it.” But the simple question is whether the new President or the Senate shall be master over his department, or whether Grant shall occupy the executive status of Lincoln or be put in the straight jacket of Johnson, He will, most probably, find himself on entering the White House in the position of Johnson. If so his proper answer to the committee from Congress will be that he haa no communication to make to either house for the present, except to sug- gest the propriety and expediency of a repeal of the Tenure of Office law. Having in the meantime requested the Johnson Cabinet to remain in their places for at least the one month still accorded them under said law, let the President await the issue of his suggestion tothe two houses, If they fall back upon their dignity, let him stand upon his and the rights of his office, and make it, if they please, a question of endurance on masterly inactivity. Let him resolve to “‘fight'it out on this line if it takes all summer,” and the Jacobins,of the Senate will soon, from the outside pressure, be compelled to surrender. It is well known by the Senate that General Grant desires the repeal of the Tenure of Office law; that he wishes it in order to have his hands free in the great contemplated work of retrenchment and reform ‘‘in a faithful col- lection of the revenue ;” that he wishes to be able, in the absence of the Senate, not to sus- pend, but to remove incompetent or unfaithful officials without being compelled, like Johnson, to give his reasons in every case or in any case to the Senate. There are Senators, how- ever, who have certain cousins and nephews and other favorites in office and out of office to jook after, and with the President under the thumb of the Vice President, as the head of the Senate, these people may be saved or pro- vided for. Under the existing law, so applied, the administration wi'l be subject to the trad- ing office cliques of the Senate, and will be powerless for retrenchment or reform. The first and main purpose of General Grant, therefore, on the outset should be to suggest the repeal of this crippling and demoralizing Tenure of Office law. Upon this issue, a8 in- volving the highest public interests, we think he can cheerfully reconcile himself to John- son’s Cabinet for a month or two, from Seward down to Grandfather Welles; and to the policy of masterly inactivity, likewise, in reference to his foreign missions, the custom houses, internal revenue offices, postmasters, district marshals, attorneys and everything else. Doubtless, however, the experiment in relation to the Cabinet would be sufficient. Let the President elect, then, on the 5th of March, in answer to the committee of Congress, say that, as under the Tenure of Office law the members of the Cabinet of Mr. Johnaon are entitled in equity to one month more in office, he has induced them to hold over for that period, subject to the repeal of the law, and that in the interval he will have no special communication to make to either house, and the result will be the prompt passage of Butler's bill. Such an achievement in the in- terests of the government would be hardly second in importance to the capture of Fort Donelson as the first victory of General Grant in his new position. Let him try it ; for upon this issue the country is heartily with him. Att Quiet at Mapetp.—By telegram from Madrid we learn that Serrano, the Prime Minister, had officially announced to the Cortes the resignation of the provisional gov- ernment of Spain. The Cortes passed a vote of thanks to the retiring members of the gov- ernment, and by @ large vote entrusted Marshal Serrano with full executive power and the authority necessary to form a new ministry. General Prim the same day assured the Cortes in an address to that body that the late dynasty would never reascend the throne of Spain: Thus it appears everything is going along smoothly at present, and quiet reigns at Madrid. Gong.—There was « boy living up town who happened to see the bold manwuvre of “Johnny the Greek” in the celebrated omnibus robbery, and was of course an important wit- ness against that distinguished citizen. The boy is gone. Where? His friends do not know, but the friends of ‘Johnny the Greek” probably do. He cannot swear against that culprit, at all events. Thus one crime covers up another. Remembertne Max.—Dulce, in Cuba, per- haps remembers Maximilian, once in Mexico. He is not going to begin the murdering of prisoners to please anybody. He may act thus from the dictates of a noble nature rather than from the warning of that example; but all Spaniards have an unrepressed fancy for slaughter. Hogs axp Crizs.—They are making a great racket in Washington about color in the dis- cussion whether our citizens of the darkest shade shall be permitted to show their faces at the inauguration ball. Why should they not? They are always permitted here. There is never a ball, public or private, in this city but persons of undeniable African descent are present, and in many of the very fineat social displays of Fifth avenue and Madison avenue the dusky-skinned citizens of woolly pate are the most welcomed of any that enter through a whole evening. Loox Ovt ror tHe Doas,—From all that is reported in regard to dogs at Hunter's Point and vicinity it is evident that a great many dogs have in their systems the terrible virus of hydrophobia. Is it not about time that the Board of Health took some active steps in regard to the police of dogs in Brook- lyn and this city to guard against tho very danger of the spread of a malady 40 cal- body knows what his inaugural will be; and | culated to domoraline the whole community? | Our Oubas News. Our telegraphic deapatches from Cuba, pub- lished to-day, show that the island and the government are in a state of great fermenta- tion. General Dulce had appeased in a mea- sure the Spanish volunteers in Havana Ps promising uncompromising hostility to revolutionists and by issuing s proclamation to that effect, Im the meantime the Cuban patriots were making headway in different parts of the island, and particularly in the Cen- tral Departiont. In the jurisdiction of Cien- fuegos they have artillery, and their cavalry is well mounted. The Spanish press in Havana confesses that it is useless to indulge in illusions and that the state of affairs in the interior could not be worse. It must be remembered that this news, gloomy as it is for ithe Spaniards, comes from Havana and en- tirely through Spanish sources. It is a fair pre- sumption, then, that the cause of the revolu- tionists is prospering much better and that that of the Spaniards is in a much worse condition than these reports make out. With this news from Cuba we have at the same time news from Spain that General Dulce is to be super- seded as Captain General, and that General Caballero de Roda is to take his place. It is evident that the Spanish government begins to realize the magnitude of the Cuban difficulty, and to see that the “ever faithful island” is about to slip from its grasp. Government By Conspiracy.—The caucus on the Tenure of Office law has prevented its repeal this session, and thus we find that a knot of men more faithful to party than toa conviction of duty, acting in con- spiracy, are more powerful for evil than is the legitimate machinery of the government for good. This caucus was conspiracy. Sena- tors were compelled to enter by terrorism—the threat of expulsion from the party—and, once in, were committed to the conclusion of the body by an understood pledge. The mischiev- ous point in the caucus system is that in this way the action of the Senate is determined otherwise than by a majority. In the Senate a majority can make or unmake laws; but if you take this majority into another place and bind every member by a pledge analogous to a conspirator’s oath to act as this caucus acts, and then the majority of this caucus deter- mines what shall be done, it follows that the Senate may be really acting on the dictate of the minority. The caucus is unrepublican and dishonest toward the people. Fravputeyt Lire INsvRANok AGENCIES, — New York, as the great centre of business, is filled with agencies of nearly all the life insu- rance companies of the country. Doubtless if a strict examination were made into the con- dition of many of these institutions they would be found insolvent and incapable of carrying out any part of what they promise on programme and in pam- phlet. To protect the public against such companies a bill has been introduced in the State Legislature requiring the special deposit of one hundred thousand dollars, exacted from our own companies, as a preliminary to the operation of such agencies within the limits of New York State. This measure will be a piece of justice to home institutions, and will be a Demooraocy 1N Cuuron.—The trouble in the Church at Auburn indicates that there can be no true Roman Church in this country, because there can be no Romans here. Ameri- cans who have subscribed their money and built their church, and have in the pulpit a pas- tor whom they revere, will never consent to see that pastor’s place taken from him and as- signed to another at the tyrannous dictation of any man who has no other right or claim to control than the one founded on his title as bishop. Our people can see what is really im- portant, even in religion, better than that. In Mextoo the murder of Maximilian was the keynote of the republican triumph in the land of the Montezumas, and now we sce that note worked to its full capabilities in fugue diapason, or any musical astonishment. Juarez nurtured the horrors that are now rend- ing his country. The Army ef the Potomac. On Monday some officers of the Army of the Potomac met in this city to form an or- ganization joining them in the common pur- pose of fostering the noble memories of the most glorious period in their lives. The feel- ing of all present was excellent, and all were no doubt inspired only by the ostensible pur- pose. Political opinions were not permitted to obtrude themselves, and the only difference was as to a choice of the day of meeting. Many of those who were associated with the army in its earlier grander glories wish to meet again on a date that recalls to them the battle of Gettysburg—though the day they propose was not one of the three days of that battle, Others wish to give greater promi- nence to the army's later history, and propose the Appomattox day. We believe the Gettys- burg men are right. Their day recalls the army’s greatest battle; and brave men should remember the occasion when they crushed in its might and glory the finest army the rebellion ever had, rather than the time when they hunted to its last retreat the broken fragments of a force, the few poor thousands that Lee had been able to keep sround him in the general ruin of his cause. Exorremenr ix tas Conorso Cauvron Souru.—A quarrel that has been going on for some time between the Northern and Southern sections of the African Methodist Church in Macon, Georgia, culminated a few nights since in the burning of the church edifice, the pos- seasion of which was the bone of contention. Now that Sambo has managed to get intos religious squabble he is certainly moving toward civilization and enlightenment, just a6 the shipwrecked mariner congratulated him- self upon being in @ civilized country when he beheld a gallows. Panson Browntow's Last Kriox.--Parson Brownlow has issued his last proclamation as Govornor of Teanessee by proolaiming martial law to exist over some nine counties in the State. Where there ia much smoke there is generally somo fire, but the action of the Governor in thus throwing a large portion of the State back into a condition incident to aemi-rebellion is severely commented upon by even bis radical suoporters, SPE nC a 1D SnSSSSRIED=CaNDUSUD OSE ==ERaEPwnng=eRSELD- Powe York lection Fraude—Report of the Commitioe of Coagress. The select committee appointed by the House of Representatives, at the instance and upon the memorial of the Union League Club, of this city, to investigate the alleged frauds and irregulrities in the city and State of New York in the recent election, made to the House yesterday, through Mr. Lawrence, of Ohio, an elaborate report. Or rather there are two re- ports, namely—that of the majority, which is accepted as the report of the committee, and that of the minority. The report of the ma- jority opens with a slashing puff of the Union League, and asserts that ‘‘no stain of dishonor rests upon the organization or any of its mem- bers in connection with the recent election.” We are very happy to learn this, though we do not see how, when or where the committee found out the purity of each immaculate indi- vidual member of the organization. The committee, in accordance with the cus- tom of such Congressional bodies, makes 9 hifalatin and long-winded peroration of a bit- ter partisan character, by way of introducing the evidence; but as every one knows the nature of these lucubrations it is unnecessary to go over the ground again. There is, how- ever, one thing worthy of notice as coming from the radicals themselves. The radical majority say :—‘‘If, as is alleged, the precipi- tate communication of the privileges of citi- zenship to the inhabitants of Italy at large contributed to the downfall of Rome, or if the game causes scourged Syracuse by perpetual sedition, how much will be the dangers that may environ our own republic?” This sort of moralizing on the evils of precipitate communi- cation of the privileges of citizenship and giv- ing historical examples smacks a little of native Americanism, but is not so bad after all. But how is it that these same radicals did precipi- tately invest with citizenship four millions of brutal and ignorant negroes who hardly knew their right hand from their left? Did they consider or care about the utter unfitness of these people for such privileges, or the danger to the republic? What a fine specimen of par- tisan logic is here exhibited! ‘The first part of the majority report is made up to show that « vast number of people were fraudulently naturalized, and the total number for the State last year thus naturalized for election purposes is assumed to be over sixty thousand. There is no direct evidence of such extensive frauds, though many irregularities are proved, Conclusions drawp fro cassie kabel pee eels appearaaces. The majority say, ‘as the evi- dence shows a widespread conspiracy it is safe to estimate this number of fraudulent certifi- cates of naturalization.” In fact, both the widespread conspiracy and the number of frauds are simply assumed. The majority of the committee are pretty hard on our city Judges, and particularly on John H. McCunn, who, as they make it appear, manufactured citizens bythe wholesale. No doubt McCunn proved himself very smart at the business; for, by his own admission, he could natu- ralize two citizens a minute—that is, keeping steadily at work eight hours a day, he could turn out nine hundred and sixty bran new citi- zens each day. That is pretty good work, but we have no doubt there are radicals who could and would do as much if they had the chance. The majority report dwells with peculiar severity, as if seized with holy horror, on those intensely patriotic democrats called “repeaters,” who followed the standing injunc- tion of all parties to ‘“‘vote early and often.” While we acknowledge there were cases of repeating the votes, there is, no doubt, a great deal of exaggeration about this matter. A good deal of the evidence comes from rascals hired to aid in the frauds for the purpose of making out a case. The talk about men voting forty times is all bosh. Of course, the responsi- bility for all the frauds—and no doubt there were many—is thrown upon the democratic party and its managers. The truth is, the democrats had greater facilities in this city for carrying out election tricks than the radicals, and this is the real cause of radical indigna- tion; for they are not a bit more honest than their opponents. The committee recommends remedies for the evils, such as taking the power of naturaliza- tion away from certain courts and having one day throughout the United States for the elec- both the validity of the choice of electors of contesting the right to the office of dent and Vice President. So we the labors of the committee end in a position to increase the powers of gress, and particularly to give that body the extremely dangerous power of questioning and contesting the election of President and Vice President. After the report was submitted yesterday a bill embodied in it to prohibit the Supreme Court, the Circuit Court and the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the city and county of New York, and the Superior Court of the city of New York, from admitting aliens to become citizens was passed by the House. The minority report, submitted by Mr. Kerr and endorsed by Mr. Ross, admits that there were frauds in voting and irregularities in naturalization, but denies the conclusions of the majority. It vindicates the judges and officers of the courts of New York, and maintains that the frauds and irregularities were those of individuals and not of the city officers or of the organization of the democratic party. It asserts that the Union League not only got up the investigation in a mean, par- tisan attempt to cast odium upon the demo- crats, but that the evidence also was manufac- tured by hired and corrupt agents of the League, and that in the main it is discredita- ble, slanderous and false, The minority recom- mend legislation to cure the evils, and favor shortening the period of residence to one year in the country and six months in the State for granting naturalization, and to dispense with the declaration of intention entirely. Judging from the character of the disclosures made, and from the prompt and decided manner in which the House acted upon the bill referred to, it is likely Congress will at an early day go over the whole ground of naturalization and the managemoat of elections. ing in compactness. Any one who looks at the map of Prussia, as the map now is, will see this at a glance. The alterations obviate this defect and give the empire a equareness and compactness which cannot fail to prove « sourge of strength as well as of convenience. The new boundary lines are as follows:—Oa the north a line runs from the Vistula along the Baltic to the frontiers of Holland and in- cludes Denmark. On the east the boundary line is so drawn that while it avoids Cracow and Vienna it includes the whole of the Aus- trian kingdom of Bohemia. Turning then in a western direction it shuts in Bavaria, Wurtem- berg and Baden, leaving out Switzerland and terminating on the right bank of the Rhine. According to this map Holland and Switzer- land are to remain as they are, and the entire left bank of the Rhine is to be yielded up to France, the fate of Belgium not being speci- fied. Prussia yields up the Rhine provinces, but Prussia compensates herself by gulping up the whole of Bohemia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden and Denmark. Austria is to lose Bo- hemia, but Austria isto be consoled for her _ loss by being allowed to stretch her arms east- ward and to swell out into a grand Danubian empire. Russia is henceforth to have no con- cern in the affairs of the West, the true sphere of her ambition being in Northern and Central Asia. The possessors of this secret further inform us that Berlin is to be the imperial capital, while Hanover, Posen, Dresden, Prague, Stuttgart and Munich rp to be converted into vice-regal centres. Many will consider this the least likely part of the programme. Until we are more certain of the authenticity and genuineness of this geo- graphical chart it will be wiser to suspend judgment. Meanwhile we feel it to be our duty to present its main features to our readers. If it should turn out to be Coant Bismarck’s map it will not by any means follow that Europe will or must be so recon- structed. Countina Cntoxens.—Canvassing is going on in Hon. E. B. Washburne’s district (Third, Illinois), upon the presumption that he will be called to take another position. His Present one is horizontal—on a sick bed; bat it does not make much difference with politi- cians whether a man goes into a casket ora cabinet, so long as their private ends are gained. Poor Lirtts Heyer Wi1son.—This per- son, who is a very great man in Massachusetts, is afraid to repeal the Tenure of Office law for fear of the scolding that Andy Johnson would give the Senate for its “‘inconsistency.” Pateyt Brioxs.—The church that fell in Morrisania the other day should warn builders against a too ready indulgence of the fantastic notions of inventors in building material. The plain old square of baked clay that has served as the material of great cities from the time of Nineveh and Babylon is an article to be relied upon, and patent bricks and patent freestone are dangerous. “Strong Wats cannot a prison make, nor iron bars a cage,” singeth our ancient minstrel. end of his beat and an assault was committed at that end when he was a mile on his way he would have to go five miles before he came around to arrest the assailants. People would naturally inquire, ‘Where are the police?” The answer would be, ‘Five miles behind.” many weeks bave rolled away since the ef i i i i l i i | Tne lh i a : i § &, Hy l F if ht in the shaft by the shirt, ashi att arawi wisted around the shat and instantly Fink IN BRoapDWay.—At seven minutes to ten O'clock last night # fire occurred in the basement floor of the four story butiding No. 235 Broad- Ter ogmied ty vores Hal, a8 rauran in’ the Londons end Aliantic and Liverpool ict. ‘Tne first oor is o5cu , rae HA Mr. [-— 0 J 4 of about $2 ‘covered insurance. The tire oxte to nf which was